In today's Ukraine, all that stands between one man and murder by the mafia is a penguin.
Andrey Kurkov was born in St Petersburg in 1961. Having graduated from the Kiev Foreign Languages Institute, he worked for some time as a journalist, did his military service as a prison warder in Odessa, then became a film cameraman, writer of screenplays and author of critically acclaimed and popular novels, including the cult bestseller Death and the Penguin.
The deadpan tone works perfectly and it will be a hard-hearted
reader who is not touched by Viktor's relationship with his unusual
pet
*The Times*
A chilling black comedy
*Guardian*
A striking portrait of post-Soviet isolation... In this bleak moral
landscape Kurkov manages to find ample refuge for his dark
humour
*New York Times*
A minor tragi-comic masterpiece
*Daily Telegraph*
A brilliant satirical take on life in modern-day Kiev. Watch out,
though, as Kurkov's writing style is highly addictive
*Punch*
'Our anti-hero finds himself writing obituaries for soon to be
deceased undesirables in the chaotic and dangerous modern Ukraine,
macaberly observed by his depressed pet King Penguin Misha.
Immensely readable with terrifically dark humour, loved it.'
*Wayne Winstone, Ottakars*
One of my favourite novels of all time
*Misha Glenny*
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